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To: JohnM who wrote (16106)	4/5/2006 1:42:20 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 541517

The best frame to use to think about universal health insurance is a social policy one, Agreed. But it's terrible social policy, not to mention a waste of resources, to institute another bloated bureaucracy to administer a program that will probably provide inferior care at a time when our budget deficit is at record highs. Just as is the case with Medicaid and Medicare, health care providers will likely be paid less than they would if they were treating privately insured patients. If you like Medicare and Medicaid, you'll love universal health care. Hillary's thousand-plus page treatise on how to take blood pressure, listen to lungs through a stethoscope, etc., and how much MDs should be paid for doing so, will look positively anemic compared to the regulations that will rule universal health care. Boondoggle City, USA. The Murray Plan is a beautiful thing, but DOA. One of its parts deals specifically with health care. A winner but unfortunately a probable non-starter.